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I have been considering the drift scene. I have been thinking about getting into the honda challenge and the SCCA (my SN) but to drive in those competitions you have to go through about a years worth of schools, which I understand why, but I just want to drive!-and the cost is about 2grand! There are just as many drift associations out there where you just show up, pay a track fee and slide!!! I am still gonna be into hondas just as much, but getting into a controlled club, I dont think is going to work out. I will stick to my 'thursday night street legal drags' at the local strip with my ghetto cars that out run most others.

I would like to get into a club, a full race club of some sort with imports.

My brother (who is 16) drives in this class at home on a dirt circle track, runs in this class called thunder cars. bacially its any car with no mods other than suspension, intake and exhaust, and mods must be OEM of the type of auto. GM to GM.... The thunder series, you start with 65 cars, and when you wreck you stay in your car, no yellow flags (unless a fire or a car rolls) and you drive 200 laps. the one left after 200 laps, wins. if there is more than 1 car left its how many laps completed, also there is a pit, so you can pull in for fuel whatever, and yellow/red flag's laps dont count. He has a 88 chevy caprice which he bought from a junkyard for 300 bucks, and he put chevy van springs on it, has like $500 in everything. He has done pretty good for him self, last saturday he placed 17th.....sounds like alot of fun, maybe I will just have to do that....next year he wants to get a VW rabbit, put the turbo deisel in it...big injectors in it, and straight down pipe...

anyone else drive/thought of driving in a controlled race?

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You want to drift, but keep your honda? Or did I misread that?
Most honda's are FWD...where's the fun in that?

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Most definitely. I too am looking at the SCCA, but for the Club Series (wheel to wheel racing) you have to spend some money for both the school and a car. The car is where it gets so expensive. I can't remember how much they end up (I think it was something like $60k, of coure thats till you get sponsored). However the SCCA Solo2 class is for anyone. All you have to have is a helmet and your car. It is ran just like autocross or time trial--best time wins (different classes of course). One car at a time on a road course made of cones. I was thinking I'd start, there spend some time getting to know the system and maybe get lucky and find someone looking for a driver. Probably just a big dream but it would be fun. Plus they have a huge number of events and its not that much.

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you looking to buy a drifter i have a 240 all ready to drift with if anyone is interested in buying

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Scca can actually be done for very cheap ::).

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Hey man, PM me about that racing your bro does, maybe I'll come down and race sometime.

Buy that AE86 and drift in that mofo. GL!

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Shouldn't you wait till the 3rd fast n furius movie comes out before you jump the bandwagon?

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your right....to start in the SCCA or NASA, you are looking at about 2K for school and safety. You can just go and take your test to get a competitors lisence, but if you fail it, you have to wait 6 months and show proof of 3 classes. (at about $400 a pop)

you can run a bone stock car of any kind (at another 2K) so to be honest, it could be done for under 4K but who wants to race with a bone stock car....


would I drift with a civic. F*** NO! I would buy a RWD corolla or a 240 or something like that.

as I mentioned, I would still like to just keep up with the local thursday night street legal drags, and I love hondas, so I couldnt take that out of my picture...

sinister...Im in the militay, home is Indiana, and im in NC. I want that corolla, but I dont have 800 bucks. :'( I want to do this when I get out of the military....10 more months!